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Ended soonInstitute for Sustainable Communities Releases Resilient Vermont Progress Report Resilient Vermont Network Will Advance Statewide Action Montpelier, VT– August 19, 2015 – Nearly four years after Tropical Storm Irene struck Vermont, the [...]

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by ISC Team | August 18, 2015
Ended soonInstitute for Sustainable Communities Releases Resilient Vermont Progress Report Resilient Vermont Network Will Advance Statewide Action Montpelier, VT– August 19, 2015 – Nearly four years after Tropical Storm Irene struck Vermont, the [...]
by ISC Team | July 28, 2015
Ended soonThis month, there have been some powerful stories about climate despair. Esquire Magazine tracked down Jason Box, a climatologist in Copenhagen who was outspoken about possible climate impacts on social media – and got some real [...]
by ISC Team | July 21, 2015
Ended soonJust over a month ago, Pope Francis released Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, a papal encyclical calling for a dialogue on the immense challenges facing the planet. In it, Pope Francis lays out his primary concerns about [...]
by ISC Team | June 26, 2015
Ended soonJust a couple of hours ago, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to marriage to all citizens.   As our office erupted into cheers, high-fives (and some tears), those of us who have [...]
by ISC Team | June 23, 2015
Ended soon[slideshow name=”Bangladesh Trip Blog”] Our team just finished up some fieldwork in Bangladesh as part of our research for the Global Resilience Challenge. If you don’t know about the Challenge, it’s a grant competition led [...]
by Haley Lacuesta | June 17, 2015
Ended soonFor the past three years, ISC has been the Learning Network Coordinator for the HUD and EPA-funded, Sustainable Communities Initiative. The Initiative supported the work of 143 urban, suburban and rural places as they developed plans [...]
by ISC Team | June 4, 2015
Ended soonBlog post by ISC’s Senior Program Officer Elaine Wang   We spend lots of time at ISC on big concepts – sustainability, resilience, adaptation and mitigation – but it’s in the field that we see these concepts made real [...]
by ISC Team | May 18, 2015
Ended soonOn March 18-19, 2015, we convened a group of environment, health and safety (EHS) leaders in Hong Kong to talk about the best ways to engage and support suppliers. In preparation for the summit, we conducted a survey, full results from [...]
by Steve Adams | May 6, 2015
Ended soonPost by Steve Adams, ISC’s Director of Strategic Initiatives   In 2009, fresh from several years of working for state and federal government, I found myself in the nonprofit world with an opportunity to work exclusively on [...]